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State Editions THE COURIER JOURNAL DEATHS FEBRUARY 25, 1995 A 13 ASSOCIATED PRESS Clay Shrout was escorted from the Boone County Jail in Burlington yesterday. He was sentenced for killing his parents and two sisters. Sentenced as an adult, Shrout given life with no parole for 25 years Associated Press BURLINGTON, Ky. A Boone circuit judge formally sentenced Clay Shrout yesterday to life in prison for the killings last year of his parents and two sisters. The sentence, which Shrout agreed to in September and was formally imposed by Judge Jay Bamberger yesterday, calls for no possibility of parole for 25 years.

Shrout was in a state-run juvenile center in Louisville until after he turned 18 last week. He was returned to Boone County on Thursday. "As you spend every day, as you spend every week, as you spend every month and as you spend every year of those 25 years, I hope that you will think of your parents and your Bamberger told Shrout. After the hearing, Shrout's grandparents stood inside the courtroom and reflected on the tragedy that struck their family. "My husband and I do not hate Clay," Roberta Shrout said.

"He's our grandchild and we love him. I've shed as many tears for Clay as I have for the rest of them, because he had every opportunity and he threw it all away." Shrout was brought to court yesterday in handcuffs from the Boone County Jail. A group of teen-agers came to support their former classmate. "We went to school with him," said John Casey, a Ryle High School senior. "He's a good guy.

After his sentencing, Shrout was returned to the jail, where he will remain until the state Corrections Cabinet determines which prison he will be sent to. Shrout has declined all interview requests. His attorney, Ed Drennen, said Shrout has refused requests from book publishers and television producers for his story. Drennen said that Shrout has received psychiatric treatment. Shrout pleaded guilty but mentally ill to four counts of murder for the May shooting of his father, Harvey, his mother, Rebecca, and his sisters, Lauren, 12, and Kristen, 14.

Police say Shrout shot the four in their beds early on May 26, using a semiautomatic handgun taken from his father's vehicle. Shrout was arrested later at school. Ward Sinclair, who spent decade covering coal issues for C-J, dies at 61 By BOB JOHNSON Staff Writer Ward Sinclair, the policies and industry made The Courier-Journal's Bureau a force Thursday night creatic cancer. For a decade '70s, Sinclair and affectingly, of coal miners working for fair treatment United Mine J. Davitt of the federal and Health and a longtime ty advocate, day that among the first to focus effectively the struggles of people in the fields.

"Ward Sinclair was my model whose mastery of what a journalist ought to be," politics of the coal David Hawpe, editor of The his reporting from er-Journal. Washington Hawpe said many credit for reform, died with creating the environment in Baltimore of pan- passage of the surface-mining He was 61. "He wrote with passion. His in the 1960s and nalism was moved by real wrote authoritatively, tion that what we print, if we about the struggles well, can make a difference, what he wrote did make a difference," Hawpe said. Sinclair, a native of Normal, joined The Louisville Times in 1964, went to The Courier-Journal and Times Washington bureau in 1968 and was named bureau chief in 1970.

He joined The Washington Post in 1977, covering Congress and the Department of Agriculture. He left the Post in 1988 to produce organically grown vegetables on his small Pennsylvania farm. He sold the produce to Washington-area restaurants and at farmers' markets, and wrote a column about it for the Post called Truckpatch. "Here in the truckpatch there is no desk, the pay isn't great and the job is never easy," he wrote in 1992. "But it offers something vital to every man the freedom to succeed or fail on one's own." He is survived by his wife, Cass Peterson; two sons, Harold Sinclair of New York City and Paul Sinclair of Sterling, a brother, Michael Sinclair of Bloomington, four sisters, Judy Brewer of Normal, Audrey Bess of Mattoon, Gail Hockin of Mercer, and Sidney Bruner of Streator, and a grandchild.

A memorial service at his farm will be at 11 a.m. March 4. The family suggests contributions to an endowment fund at the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture in Millheim, Pa. KENTUCKY DEATHS 62, died here Thursday. Funeral, 3 p.m.

Sunday, O'Neil Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Saturday. CYNTHIANA James F. Walden, 83, Cincinnati, died there Friday.

Graveside service, 1 p.m. Monday, Battle Grove Cemetery. Arrangements: Whaley Funeral Home. CYNTHIANA Emma K. Whitaker, 77, Lexington, died there Thursday.

Funeral, 10 a.m. Monday, Whaley- McCarty Funeral Home. Visitation after 4 p.m. Sunday. DANVILLE Ethel Creekmore, 83, died here Thursday.

Funeral, 11 a.m. Monday, First Church of God. Visitation at Stith Funeral Home after 4 p.m. Sunday. DANVILLE Gladys Morrison Tanner, 75, died here Thursday.

Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Indian Hills Christian Church. Visitation at the church after 10 a.m. Saturday. Arrangements: Preston-Pruitt Funeral Home.

DANVILLE Chester B. Viford, 81, Tuscaloosa, died there Friday. The funeral arrangements are pending. Arrangements: Stith Funeral Home. FEDS CREEK Sidney Casey, 62, died Thursday in Pikeville.

His wife, Peggy, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Bailey Funeral Home, Elkhorn City. visitation after 9 a.m. Saturday.

FOUNTAIN RUN Gladys Pearl Howard, 86, died Friday in Glasgow. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Hughes Funeral Home. Visitation after 11 a.m. Saturday.

FRANKFORT Jean Her Allen, husband, 65, died Thursday. Fred, survives. Funeral, 1 p.m. Monday, Harrod Brothers Memorial Chapel. Visitation after 2 p.m.

Sunday. FRANKFORT Linda M. Bates Goff, 47, died here Thursday. Funeral, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, LeCompteJohnson-Taylor Funeral Home.

Funeral after 1 p.m. Saturday. FRANKFORT Orville Clay "Joe" Sanderson, 80, died here Friday. His wife, Leona, survives. Funeral, 3.

p.m. Monday, Harrod Brothers Memorial Chapel. Visitation after 2 p.m. Sunday. GLASGOW C.

B. Brown, 76, died here Friday. His wife, Bonnie, survives. Funeral, 1 p.m. Monday, A.

F. Crow Son Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m. Sunday. HARDINSBURG Leila Kathleen Armes, 76, formerly of Breckinridge County, died Thursday in Louisville.

Funeral, 1 p.m. CST Sunday, Cave Springs United Methodist Church, Breckinridge County. Visitation at Trent-Dowell Funeral Home after 2 p.m. CST Saturday. HARLAN Sterling Honeycutt, 89, Stony Fork, formerly Harlan, died here Wednesday.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Chapel of Mount Pleasant Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Saturday. HARLAN Perry White 76, Wallins, died here Thursday.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Monday, Chapel of Mount Pleasant Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. HAZARD Oma Turner, 79, died here Wednesday.

Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Maggard Brothers Funeral Home. Visitation after 9:30 a.m. Saturday. HINDMAN Violet Tolliver, 78, Littcarr, died Friday in Hazard.

Funeral, 11 a.m. Monday, Hindman Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m. Saturday. HOPKINSVILLE Tyler Lee Wayne Gillingham, 3-month-old son of Jonathan Gillingham and Tina R.

Stokes, died here Thursday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Fuqua-Hinton Funeral Home. Visitation after 2 p.m. Saturday.

IRVINE David Rader, 72, died LOUISVILLE AREA FUNERALS ments: A Cremation Service of the Palm Beaches, Boynton Beach. Joseph W. Fitzpatrick, 78. Funeral: 11 a.m. Saturday, St.

Bartholomew Catholic Church. There will be no visitation: Arrangements: Ratterman Sons, 3800 Bardstown Road. Eugene Gribbins, 71, Shepherdsville, a native of Taylor County. Funeral: 1 p.m. Saturday, Highland Park Church of God of Prophecy.

Visitation: at the church after 10 a.m. Saturday. Arrangements: Arch L. Heady Okolona Funeral Home. Arrangements for Ernest Lee Hargis, 67, have been changed.

Funeral: 11:30 a.m. Monday, Ratterman's-Portland. Visitation: after 9:30 a.m. Monday. He died Sunday.

Charles D. Jacobs, 53, Corydon, formerly of Louisville. Graveside service: 11 a.m. Monday, St. Joseph Catholic Church Cemetery, Corydon.

There will be no visitation. Arrangements: BeanblossonCesar Funeral Home. Helen "Billie" Johnson, 62, Valley Station, a native of Corbin. Funeral: 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Hardy here Thursday.

His wife, Dorothy, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Lewis Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m. Saturday.

JAMESTOWN Billy D. Bunch, 42, died here Wednesday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, H. E.

Pruitt Memory Chapel. Visitation after 12:30 p.m. Saturday. JENKINS Melda C. Bullion, 80, formerly of Burdine, died Wednesday in Trotwood, Ohio.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Monday, Polly Craft Funeral Home, Visitation after noon Sunday. LEBANON Nash Lankford, 81, died here Thursday. His wife, Thelma, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Sunday, Bosley Funeral Home. Visitation after 3 p.m. Saturday. LEITCHFIELD Anna Lacefield Skaggs, 72, died here Friday. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Sunday, Watkins Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m. Saturday. LEITCHFIELD Agelene Young, 76, died Thursday in Elizabethtown. Her husband, Lester, survives.

Funeral, 1 p.m. Sunday, Dermitt Funeral Home. Visitation after 10 a.m. Saturday. LEXINGTON Sue Noel, 86, died here Thursday.

Funeral, 1:30 p.m. Monday, W. R. Milward-Broadway Mortuary. Visitation after 2 p.m.

Sunday. LEXINGTON Dorothy Osborne, 72, died here Friday. Graveside service, 12:30 p.m. Monday, Bluegrass Memorial Gardens, Jessamine County. LEXINGTON Jane Sanders, 76, died Wednesday in Port Orange, Fla.

Her husband, Jim, survives. Funeral, 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, W. R. Milward-Southland Mortuary.

Visitation after 7 p.m. Monday. LEXINGTON Frances Tay. lor, 71, died here Friday. Her husband, Jerry, survives.

Funeral, 1:30 p.m. Monday, W. R. Milward-Southland Mortuary. Visitation after 3 p.m.

Sunday. MADISONVILLE Julian Sidney Johnson, infant son of Ira and Candace Johnson, Oak Grove, died Wednesday in Hopkinsville. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Harris Funeral Home. Visitation after 8 a.m.

Saturday. MAYFIELD Rexie Mason, 81, Farmington, died Friday in Paducah. His wife, Verda, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Brown Funeral Home.

Visitation after 5 p.m. Saturday. MOREHEAD Tony Buckner, 26, Frenchburg, formerly of Morehead, died Thursday in Lexington. His wife, Dawn, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Sunday, Northcutt Son Home for Funerals. MORGANTOWN Norma, Johnson, 56, died here Wednesday. Her husband, Billy, survives. Funeral, 10 a.m. Saturday, Jones Funeral Home.

Visitation after 9 a.m. Saturday. MOUNT STERLING Bobby Joe Whitaker, 60, died here Friday. His wife, Mary Jo, survives. Funeral, 10 a.m.

Monday, Gateway Christian Church. Visitation at the church after 4. p.m. Sunday. Arrangements: Eastin-Taul Funeral Home.

MUNFORDVILLE Mamie H. Davis, 86, died Friday in Horse: Cave. Funeral, 1 p.m. CST- Monday, Hawkins-Brooks Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m.

CST Saturday. MURRAY C. W. Outland, 71, died here Thursday. His wife, Mary, survives.

Funeral, 3:30 p.m. Saturday, J. H. Churchill Funeral Home. MURRAY Ruble Thurman, 82, died here Thursday.

His wife, Laverne, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, J. H. Churchill Funeral Home.

Funeral Home. Edna Mae Johnson, 86, South Louisville, a native of Glasgow. Funeral: 11 a.m. Saturday, Arch L. Heady Southern Funeral Home.

The funeral for Martin B. Matz, 92, will be at 1 p.m. Friday at St. Therese Catholic Church, 1010 Schiller Ave. Arrangements: Bosse Funeral Home.

He died Wednesday. Homet C. Phelps, 88, formerly. Louisville, a native of Butler County. Funeral: 11 a.m.

Saturday, Embry-Bosse Funeral Home. Visitation: after 9 a.m. Saturday. Bertha M. Ritman, 100.

Funeral: 10 a.m. Saturday, Arch L. Heady Oak Street Funeral Home. Carolyn Marie Sample, 65. Funeral: 11 a.m.

Saturday, Resurrection Catholic Church. Visitation: Arch L. Heady Son Okolona, after 9 a.m. Saturday. Stanley W.

Samuels, 89. Funeral: 2 p.m. Sunday, Fairdale-McDaniel Funeral Home. Visitation: after 11 a.m. Saturday and 9 a.m.

Sunday. Ronald Lee Tyler, 54. Visitation: Neurath Underwood Funeral Home, after 4 p.m. Saturday. it BARDSTOWN Elmer E.

"Buster" Hubbard, 81, died here Friday. His wife, Marie, survives. Arrangements: Mann Greenwell Funeral Home. BELTON William Virgil! hon, 80, Athens, died there Thursday. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Sunday, Tucker Beechmont Funeral Home. Visitation after 4 p.m. Saturday. BENTON Edith Camp, 100, Calvert City, died there Thursday. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Monday, Caskey Funeral Home, Stockbridge, Mich. Local arrangements: Collier Funeral Home. BENTON Reginald Darnell, 74, Symsonia, died Thursday in Nicholasville. Funeral, 1 p.m. Saturday, Collier Funeral Home.

BENTON Lomon Powell, 81, Symsonia, died Thursday in Mayfield. His wife, Mae Belle, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Collier Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m.

Saturday. BENTON William McGregor, 80, died here Thursday. His wife, Ravenel, survives. Funeral, 11 a.m. Monday, Collier Funeral Home.

Visitation after 5 p.m. Sunday. BEREA William Otis Spires, 62, died Friday in Mount Vernon. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Lakes Funeral Home.

Visitation after 5 p.m. Saturday. BOWLING GREEN Mildred L. Cole, 58, died here Thursday. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Sunday, J. C. Kirby Son Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Friday.

BOWLING GREEN Ora L. Phelps, 88, died here Thursday. Graveside service, 1:30 p.m. Monday, Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens. Visitation at J.

C. Kirby Son Funeral Home after 12:30 p.m. Monday. BOWLING GREEN Mattie Lee Rone, 85, died here Wednesday. Her husband, Milton, survives.

The funeral was Friday at J. C. Kirby Son Funeral Home. BOWLING GREEN James "Gib" Young, 75, died here Wednesday. His wife, Mary, survives.

Funeral, 1 p.m. Saturday. Visitation after 9 a.m. Saturday. BURKESVILLE Willard Lyman Hunter, 74, died Thursday in Glasgow.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Ballou Funeral Home. Visitation after 11 a.m. Saturday. CARROLLTON Helen Coates Hudgins, 83, died here Friday.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Graham-Dunn Funeral Home. Graveside service, 11 a.m. Monday, Owenton Cemetery. Visitation after noon Sunday.

CENTERTOWN Leslie Estill Burden, 85, died here Thursday. His wife, Ora, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Duke-Bevill Brothers Funeral Home. Visitation after 1 p.m.

Saturday. CLARKSON Edna SmallClark, 74, died here ThursFuneral, noon CST Saturday, Paul Catholic Church. Visitation at Rogers Funeral Home. CORBIN Verlie Brock, 93, Lake City, formerly of Gray, died Thursday in Lake City. Funeral, 11 a.m.

Monday, Vankirk Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m. Sunday. CORBIN Gladys Bunch, 82, Monroe, Ohio, formerly of Corbin, died Thursday in Fairfield, Ohio. Funeral, 10 a.m.

Monday, Good Hope Baptist Church. Visitation at Hart Funeral Home after 7 p.m. Sunday. CORBIN Rosa Engle, 83, Gray, died Thursday in Williamsburg. Her husband, Dewey, sur-, vives.

Funeral, 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Candle Ridge Baptist Church, Gray. Visitation at O'Neil Funeral Home after 6 p.m. Saturday. CORBIN Roland Ray Parker, Eva Marie Allard, 86.

Graveside service: Monday, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Norfolk, Va. Visitation: Holoman-Brown Funeral Home, Norfolk, after 4 p.m. Sunday. Vera Elmore Bradshaw, 84, formerly of Greensburg, a native of Green County. Funeral: 1 p.m.

Saturday, Warren F. Toler Funeral Home, Greensburg. Pauline Brandt, 81. Funeral: 2 p.m. Saturday, Arch L.

Heady Oak Street Funeral Home. Visitation: after 10 a.m. Saturday. Michael D. Carroll, 27.

Funeral: 11 a.m. Saturday, Evergreen Funeral Home. Margaret Elizabeth Colston, 90, Crescent Hill. Funeral: 1 p.m. Saturday, Arch L.

Heady Crescent Hill Funeral Home. Visitation: after 11 a.m. Saturday. Stanley Combs, 75, a native of Knott County. Funeral: 1 p.m.

Saturday, Pearson's. Visitation: after 11 a.m. Saturday. Farrell W. Curran, 64, Delray Beach, formerly of Louisville.

Memorial service: 9:30 a.m. Saturday, St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church, Delray Beach. Arrange- OWENSBORO James. M.

Harrison, 93, died here Wednesday. Funeral, 10 a.m. Saturday, Glenn Funeral Home. Visitation after 8:30 a.m. Saturday.

OWENSBORO Malinda Huston, 99, died here Monday. Funeral, 1 p.m. Saturday, Fourth St. Baptist Church. Visitation at McFarland Funeral Home after 11 a.m.

Saturday. OWENSBORO Franklin Marshal Wells I1, infant son of Franklin Marshal Wells. and Melissa Hibbard, died here Friday. Funeral, noon Saturday, Christ Chapel of Owensboro Memorial Gardens. Arrangements: Glenn Funeral Home.

OWENSBORO Ralph E. Whitehouse, 71, died here Thursday. His wife, Maretta, survives. Funeral, 1 p.m. Saturday, James H.

Davis Funeral Home. Visitation after 9 a.m. PIKEVILLE Raymond D. Mullins, 68, died here Friday. His wife, Leah, survives.

Funeral, 1 p.m. Monday, Call Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Saturday. PRINCETON Nellie T.

Ridley Martin, 96, died Tuesday in Knoxville, Tenn. A graveside service was Friday in Millwood Cemetery. Local arrangements: Morgan's Funeral Home. PRINCETON Golda Mitchell, 87, died here Wednesday. Funeral, 2:30 Saturday, Blue Springs Baptist Church.

Visitation at Morgan's Funeral Home after 8 a.m. Saturday and the church after 1:30 p.m. Saturday. PRINCETON- Odie Thomas O'Daniel, 91, died Saturday in Bakersfield, Calif, Funeral, 1 p.m. Saturday, Morgan's Funeral Home.

Visitation after 8 a.m. Saturday. PROVIDENCE Maurice Allen Overby, 81, died Thursday in Henderson. His wife, Jane, survives. Funeral, 11 a.m.

Saturday, TownsendJones Funeral Visitation after 8 a.m. Saturday. on RICHMOND Martha Hurt willis, 84, died Friday in Lexington. Funeral, 1 p.m. Saturday, OldhamRoberts Funeral Home, RUSSELLVILLE James Hall.

man 57, died here Friday. His wife, Mildred, survives. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Sanders Funeral Home. Visitation after 8 a.m.

Saturday. RUSSELLVILLE Netalle son, 86, died here Wednesday. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Memorial Funeral Home. Visitation after 8 a.m.

Saturday. latod SCIENCE "Slim" Burkett, 77, Somerset, died Friday in Harrodsburg. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Cedar Point Cemetery, Engle. Visitation at Morris Hislope Funeral, Home after 10 a.m.

Saturday. SCOTTSVILLE Daniel Morris Hammock, 66, died here Tuesday. His wife, Willie, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Goad Funeral Home.

SCOTTSVILLE Elmer "Rusty" Smith, 81, died Friday in Bowling Green. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Goad Funeral Home. SOMERSET Beulah Mounce, 81, died here Friday. Funeral, 3 p.m.

Sunday, Pulaski Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Saturday. SOMERSET Lester F. Wilson, 84, died here Thursday.

His wife, Hattie, survives. Funeral, 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Pulaski Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Saturday.

James Morgan Arnold, 76, died Thursday in Louisville. His wife, Ella, survives. Funeral, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Carey Son Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m.

Saturday. STANFORD Harold Lee Robbins, 56, Jenkinsburg, formerly of Lincoln County, died Wednesday in Jenkinsburg. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Fox Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m.

Saturday. TOMPKINSVILLE Grace Marshall Bushong, 86, died here Friday. Funeral, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Strode Funeral Home. Visitation after 2 p.m.

Saturday. VARNEY Rebecca Elizabeth Maynard, 88, died Thursday in Russell Springs. Funeral 1 p.m. Sunday, Pike County Funeral Home, Zebulon: Visitation after 4 p.m. Saturday.

WHITLEY CITY Gary Greg. ory, 39, died Thursday in Corbin. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, HickmanStrunk Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m.

Saturday. WHITLEY CITY Mary leen Wright, 69, Stearns, died Thursday in Louisville. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, McCreary County Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m.

Saturday. WILLIAMSBURG Thurman Chinn, 88, died Thursday in Jellico, Tenn. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Main Street Baptist Church, Visitation at Croley Funeral Home after 6 p.m. Saturday.

WILLIAMSBURG Lillie Huddieston, 77, died Thursday in Corbin. Her husband, the Rev. Clyde Huddleston, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Croley Funeral Home.

Visitation after 8 a.m. Saturday. coal for said Couri- Sinclair for law. jourconvic- do it and 1973 FILE PHOTO hazards miners faced, on Sinclair the troubling economic and social issues in the coal fields, and on union reform. Sinclair's coverage of coal coincided with the push for effective federal mine-safety legislation in the wake of the 1968 disaster at Farmington, W.Va., that killed 78 miners.

The disaster underscored the indifference of industry and government to the carnage underground. He also spotlighted the union insurgency against the corrupt leadership of W. A. "Tony" Boyle, whose henchmen had murdered union reformer Joseph "Jock" Yablonski and his family. After a long battle, the Boyle faction was dislodged by Arnold Miller and the Miners for Democracy movement.

During the 1970s, coal policy had a profile in Washington that it has since lost as government, reformers and the industry, wrestled with black lung with regulation of surface mining and coal's role in meeting the nation's energy needs. Sinclair provided insightful coverage while never losing touch with.